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Regatta Run will celebrate life of slain Tualatin Marine

The annual event raises money for a scholarship in memory of Cpl. Matthew Lembke.

For the ninth consecutive year, runners and walkers will come together for the Regatta Run 5K in Tualatin on Saturday morning, Oct. 21.

The course begins and ends at Tualatin Community Park, proceeding across the Ki-a-Kuts Bridge into Durham City Park and neighboring Cook Park in Tigard before returning back across the Tualatin River. The start time is 9 a.m.

Organizers pledge 100 percent of race proceeds to a scholarship fund benefiting graduating seniors at Tualatin High School. The fund was set up in honor of Marine Cpl. Matthew Lembke, a 2005 alumnus of Tualatin High School who died after an improvised explosive device exploded beneath him while he was on foot patrol in Afghanistan in June 2009.